[1331] Book I, § 98.

[1332] See a paper by E. W. Hopkins on The Holy Numbers of the Rig-Veda (Oriental Studies, Boston, 1894, pp. 141-147).

[1333] Written ideographically, as the names of the zikkurats and of all sacred edifices invariably are.

[1334] See above, p. [459].

[1335] Inscription G, col. i. l. 14; D, col. ii. l. 11.

[1336] IIR. 50; obverse 20. See p. [472].

[1337] Kosmologie, pp. 171-174.

[1338] The suggestion is worthy of consideration whether the name 'seven directions of heaven and earth' may not also point to a conception of seven zones dividing the heavens as well as the earth. One is reminded of the 'seven' heavens of Arabic theology.

[1339] So e.g., Kaulen, Assyrien und Babylonien (3d edition), p. 58; Vigouroux, La Bible et les Découvertes Modernes (4th edition), i. 358.

[1340] Lit., 'house to be seen,' Igi-e-nir. See, e.g., VR. 29, no. 4, 40, and Delitzsch, Assyr. Handwörterbuch, p. 262.